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While “most public policyattention has been directed at the plight of home owners, one-third of all Americans pay rent” and their quest for affordable housing has long been “the neglected step-child of federal housing policy.”
Priced Out of Shelter; The Decline of Affordable Housing
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford
“The United States has never achieved national goals in creation of affordable housing.”
The current housing crisis may cause rents to come down in some areas. But wages will also go down, and unemployment is rapidly rising, putting increased pressures on the poor and the soon-to-be poor.
“Wholesale destruction of public housing stock continues under local administrations of both parties.”
The rhetoric of crime prevention has always served to enforce colonial order. Today, this same logic drives the policing of Black neighborhoods as a form of urban pacification.
A federal crackdown in Washington, D.C., is escalating a bipartisan war against the Black working class. This assault, enabled by local Black misleadership, exposes the colonial nature of policing.
Charlie Kirk's assassination has become the pretext to accelerate a pre-existing fascist agenda, targeting a broad spectrum of forces, from leftist organizers to mainstream institutions.
Walkouts in over 60 cities disrupted trains, ports, and schools to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
The ongoing hybrid war against Venezuela exemplifies imperialism’s evolving tactics for regime change used against Global South nations.
